Anti-riots: Hearing Before Subcommittee No. 4, Ninetieth Congress, First SessionConsiders H.R. 12328 and identical H.R. 12605 and H.R. 12721, and similar H.R. 12557, to prohibit riots and incitement of riots in D.C. Includes LRS report "State and Federal Laws on Riot" by Robert L. Thornton and Bayard Marin, Aug. 22, 1967 (p. 31-70) |
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Page 51 - ... no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be received against him upon any criminal investigation or proceeding.
Page 8 - SEC. 303. (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of section 301 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on conviction thereof be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than $1,000, or both...
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Page 33 - ... a vessel of the United States, on the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, unlawfully and with force, or by fraud, or intimidation, usurps the command of such vessel from the master or other lawful officer in command thereof, or deprives him of authority and command on board, or resists or prevents him in the free and lawful exercise thereof, or transfers such authority and command to another not lawfully entitled thereto, is guilty...
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Page 33 - commerce" means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; or between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof; or within any Territory or possession or the District of Columbia. (k) The term "United States" means the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Territories and possessions of the United States.
Page 37 - Any use of force or violence, disturbing the public peace, or any threat to use such force or violence, if accompanied by immediate power of execution, by two or more persons acting together, and without authority of law, is a riot.
Page 50 - ... by a fine of not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 50 - defined. Whenever three or more persons, having assembled for any purpose, disturb the public peace, by using force or violence to any other person, or to property, or threaten or attempt to commit such disturbance, or to do an unlawful act by the use of force or violence, accompanied with the power of immediate execution of such threat or attempt, they are guilty of riot.
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| Title | Anti-riots: Hearing Before Subcommittee No. 4, Ninetieth Congress, First Session |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | Nov 27, 2006 |
| Length | 70 pages |
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